Nvidia might Release GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Nvidia has a pretty strong lineup ever since last year, and with the recent Vega release from AMD we do not expect massive movements with new products this year. However the one product series that co...

This would be so unnecessary. Between Vega, 1070, 980Ti and 1080 that segment is already packed. It would lead to more confusion than good for people that don't live and breathe tech like we do. It would end up looking like 1070OC=1070Ti stock, 1070TiOC=1080stock, 980TiOC=1070Ti stock, Vega 56=1070 stock/980Ti stock, Vega56OC=1070OC,1080 stock and 980TiOC! Super helpful to cram more GPU's where we don't need them.

well, they can do whatever they want for as long as they want now that there's officially no competition. AMD showed their hand and they were bluffing.

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If there was no competition, why would they do anything at all? Just look at what Intel did for years when AMD was sitting on its hands: Nothing at all, just the same old crap under a new name time after time.

This would be so unnecessary. Between Vega, 1070, 980Ti and 1080 that segment is already packed. It would lead to more confusion than good for people that don't live and breathe tech like we do. It would end up looking like 1070OC=1070Ti stock, 1070TiOC=1080stock, 980TiOC=1070Ti stock, Vega 56=1070 stock/980Ti stock, Vega56OC=1070OC,1080 stock and 980TiOC! Super helpful to cram more GPU's where we don't need them.

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The market works best when there's always a better choice available if you are willing to put in a bit more money. If you need to invest 150 more, it's a lot and many customers wouldn't, but if you only need to dig your wallet for less than hundred bucks more, it doesn't feel as impossible. On the other hand at this point it won't cost Nvidia anything extra to actually manufacture the 1070Ti GPU. With the rising VRAM costs there's pressure to increase the video card prices throughout the whole range, which means 1080 would be out of the question for more people, but this speculative 1070Ti might still be within their means.

Not to mention purely marketing wise it's always important to have new products regularly.

well, they can do whatever they want for as long as they want now that there's officially no competition. AMD showed their hand and they were bluffing.

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Well actually they'd fish in the Vega56 waters with it, no? Trying to compete? Although I though that they refreshed the 1070 like they did with the 1080 with the GDDR5X upgrade, which I personally would have found sufficient for Pascal lineup.

The market works best when there's always a better choice available if you are willing to put in a bit more money. If you need to invest 150 more, it's a lot and many customers wouldn't, but if you only need to dig your wallet for less than hundred bucks more, it doesn't feel as impossible. On the other hand at this point it won't cost Nvidia anything extra to actually manufacture the 1070Ti GPU. With the rising VRAM costs there's pressure to increase the video card prices throughout the whole range, which means 1080 would be out of the question for more people, but this speculative 1070Ti might still be within their means.

Not to mention purely marketing wise it's always important to have new products regularly.

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This pretty much sums it up from a company's side of serving a market. Although I have to note, tech wise I guess they could have skipped such a release. Theoretically, they could have made a 1070 especially for miners and try to grab some of that money too if people can't get their hands on AMD's offerings.

To be fair, even there it doesn't say anything about the 1080Ti or Volta (because under the sticker there could be the word "voltage").
The issue was that the hype was bigger than AMD's own claims for a long time, who created the hype is a different question though.

I don't see any sense to launch a GTX 1070 TI, it's understood that they want to kill Vega RX 56, but where I see there's a big gap, is between the GTX 1060 and the GTX 1070. I would buy a possible GTX 1060 TI.

Expect either a 1070Ti or 1070Se (Second Edition) label rather than LE (Lite Edition) - at least if the shader count and memory is better than the 1070's.

Generally speaking the 1060 3GB should be a 1060LE in contrast to a 1060 6GB or the 1060 6GB should be a 1060Ti compared to a 1060 3GB. Who knows what Nvidia will do but we will find out eventually.

Anyway, Vega 56 will probably outlive the 1070 (and the even a Ti) eventually. Potentially get to 1080 AIB level towards the end of its lifetime. Given its immense power draw I'm surprised that Nvidia actually considers closing the performance gap between the 1070 and 1080 as the Vega would only be enticing - if at all - for enthusiasts.